Living Colour,
A Tribe Called Quest,
NIN,
Steve Vai,
Frank Zappa,
The Red Hot Chilli Peppers,
Parliament,
The New Rotary Connection,
De La Soul,
The Prodigy,
The Chemical Brothers,
Underworld,
Rage Against The Machine,
Pearl Jam,
Nirvana,
Pink Floyd,
4-Hero
2-Pac,
Snoop Dogg,
Foo Fighters,
Supergrass,
Radiohead,
Public Enemy,
Front 242,
Iron Maiden,
Aphex Twin,
Fishbone.
24-7-Spyz,
Squarepusher,
Blak Twang,
Galliano,
Ozzy Osbourne,
Incognito,
Dr Dre,
Bob Marley,
Damian Marley,
Jill Scott,
Minnie Riperton,
John Williams,
The Beastie Boys,
The Beatles,
David Bowie.
British Intelligence make heavy rock, metal, punk, industrial, hip hop and breaks influenced music with rap vocals and scratch djing. A 6-piece live band, they push the proverbial genre boundaries fusing guitars with dysfunctional hip hop and dance beats and often-polemical rap to create a 100 db wall-of-sound. Think Nine Inch Nails meets Rage against the Machine and has The Prodigy’s mutant spawn adopted by Public Enemy.
The sound of today is anything goes and British Intelligence have this in spades, the cumulative effect of 6 lads from the south-east with a shared musical heritage of acid house, rave, rock and hip hop. B. I. have a sound that isn’t quite definable, a post-ecstasy culture collision of dance floor energy, rock and rap, a fusion of US and UK influences, UK politics, extremely loud, and yet strangely likeable by everyone.
Established breaks and house producer Steve Lavers already had Essential New Tunes, a world-wide house hit and scores of releases and remixes under his belt when he decided to pick up the guitar again at a time when live music was about to retake the crown. Rapper Jay Aldridge who had come out of the dnb rave scene in the 90s joined Steve in the North London studio 4 years ago, fresh back from some years living in Toronto where he’d developed his particular flow, and spit lyrics about clubbing, growing up on a London council estate, and the state of the UK today. Fast forward a couple of years, add in king-size bass and beats from Essex-based Tim Jackson and Steve Wilson, Lavers’ guitar and studio production wizardry, Leon backing up his brother Jay on vocals, and hip hop flavour from danny bounce and you have the complete incendiary live experience of British Intelligence.
This past year has been all about little steps and big changes: from the gig circuit in Essex and London and promoting their own showcase ‘Box-850’ nights in Chelmsford’s live scene, fine-tuning an album of material and debut single ‘Street Fight’, and putting out the mixtape picked up on by Living Colour’s Vernon Reid they’ve since gone on to get themselves a music award nomination, support from BBC Essex and been selected for the BBC Introducing stage at Reading & Leeds Festival 2009.
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We Gonna Make It - Mixtape - Listen or click arrow on right to download for free
Hope you’re all fantastic! Saturday 28th November sees THE PLAYGROUND present the Nominees for the Best Breakthough Act BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB on the decks along with the most exciting, innovative and genuinely imaginative force in music right now- GAGGLE.
BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB- DJ// GAGGLE// THE COOLNESS// COLD IN BERLIN// PUSS IN BOOTS// ELECTRIC RIOT// MICRON 63// LEIGH DE VRIES// THE GAA GAA’S // THE DEEP BELOW// DJ Darkorse// Straightola (VJ Set) and Burlesque performances
Expect a sell out show so to avoid frustration at the door get your early bird tickets in advance below!!
yeah for sure, just send an acapella my way and maybe an instrumental, think it could sound REALLY good! have you got anything around 140bpm? yeah will defo work on getting a gig, there's plenty of venues down here where youd kill it. nice one b.
Hi British Intelligence Thanks For Becoming Our Friend
We're An Essex Based Underground Dance Music Radio Station, Run By A Bunch Of Normal & Fairly Average Nuttas!! (& We Get The Odd Very Special Guest From Time To Time)
Lockin If You Get A Chance, We Have Live Video & Chatroom... & We Play Allsorts!! Including, Breaks, Electro, DnB, Old Skool, Fidget, House..Blahhhh!!!
loving the music!! never get the chance to sit here and listen to bands... unemployment is one of life's sweet pleasures... let me know if you're ever doing any camden ish gigs
Hi, My name is Stephen and I've started up a podcast which aims to promote unsigned acts and I'd like you to be in it as I'm going to do a Reading and Leeds special.
I'm hoping that the podcast will have a snowball effect if each of the bands in it promote it on their MySpace and then more unsigned acts can hear about it etc.
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